Love Island star Jack Fowler said his throat closed and he felt his tongue begin to swell “within seconds” of being served ice cream containing nuts on a flight, despite repeated reminders to staff that he had a life-threatening allergy. The 27-year-old described himself as “extremely lucky” to have immediately noticed something was wrong with the vanilla ice cream and spat it out before discovering crushed pistachio nuts were hidden within it.
The former reality TV contestant, who said he was left struggling to breathe, said it was the second time during his flight with Qatar Airways that he had been served nuts, having been offered pastries with nuts after boarding the plane. He wrote on Instagram: “I told @qatarairways hostess’s five times I was anaphylactic to nuts (life-threatening allergy). As well as asking for reassurance when every meal was served to me, that it was nut-free.
“To be given nuts TWICE is such a massive failure from @qatarairways. Within seconds I couldn’t breath properly after eating the crushed pistachio nuts beneath my vanilla Ice cream.
